Joan Eileen Walsh FIMA (1932–2017) was a British mathematician, a professor of numerical analysis at the University of Manchester, and the founding chair of the Numerical Algorithms Group. She was the first female professor of mathematics in the UK. (Wikipedia).
Sylvia Earle: Oceanographer, Explorer, Pioneer, Remarkable Woman
Former U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration chief scientist Sylvia Earle has danced the an octopus and explored the depths of the Mississippi River. Despite it being "unusual" for a woman to be interested in science while she was growing up, Earle's persistence and the supp
From playlist General Science
Barbara McClintock: professional pre-genetics geneticist, corn-experimenter, and award-collector.
From playlist Women of Science and Math
Genevieve Bell interviewed at Where 2.0 2011
Recently named one of the top 50 most creative people in Business (Fast Company,) Genevieve Bell is an Intel Fellow and director of the Interaction and Experience Research Group within the Intel Labs. Bell joined Intel in 1998 and has come to lead an R&D team of social scientists, interac
From playlist Where 2.0 2011
When Richard Nixon Met Hunter S. Thompson (History Documentary) | Real Stories [4k]
Wunderkind Cameron Crowe joins Rolling Stone Magazine's roster and participates in a grudge softball game between The Eagles, Chicago, and the typewriter jockeys at Rolling Stone. As Rolling Stone plunges into politics, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson and photographer Annie Leibovitz cover the tumu
From playlist Extraordinary Stories
Anne-Marie Slaughter, “The Chessboard and the Web”
Anne-Marie Slaughter, President and CEO of New America From 2009-2011 Professor Slaughter served as the director of Policy Planning for the United States Department of State, the first woman to hold that position. Prior to her government service, Professor Slaughter was the Dean of Princet
From playlist The MacMillan Report
Helen Keller: Biography of a Great Thinker
Helen Keller (1880-1968) was the first deaf and blind person to earn a Bachelor's degree. Her teacher and companion was Anne Sullivan, and the story of how Sullivan broke through Keller's isolation to teach her language was the subject of the play and Academy Award winning movie "The Mira
From playlist It Starts With Literacy
ICTS Special Colloquium by Bruce Walsh
Second Bangalore School on Population Genetics and Evolution URL: http://www.icts.res.in/program/popgen2016 DESCRIPTION: Just as evolution is central to our understanding of biology, population genetics theory provides the basic framework to comprehend evolutionary processes. Population
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Dorothy Horstmann: Polio Pioneer
Yale researcher Dorothy Horstmann made seminal discoveries about the course of polio that supported the ultimate development of a vaccine. Her former mentee, George Miller reflects on Horstmann's science and life. Deputy Dean Carolyn Slayman talks about Horstmann's groundbreaking role as a
From playlist Bicentennial Voices
Bryna Kra : Multiple ergodic theorems: old and new - lecture 3
Abstract : The classic mean ergodic theorem has been extended in numerous ways: multiple averages, polynomial iterates, weighted averages, along with combinations of these extensions. I will give an overview of these advances and the different techniques that have been used, focusing on co
From playlist Dynamical Systems and Ordinary Differential Equations
Taking a Graphic Design walk with Jessica Walsh
D&AD Graphic Design Jury Foreman Jessica Walsh picks some of her favourite entries form the 2014 D&AD Awards.
From playlist Graphic Design
Dr Rachel Jones - I’m not a geek but I love technology ...
“I’m not a geek but I love technology.”: Dr Rachel Jones talks about her career in product design in the field of human-computer interaction. She talks about the projects she has worked on and reflects on the sociotechnological changes she has witnessed and on being a woman in a STEM field
From playlist Viva Computer!
Biological Sciences M121. Immunology with Hematology. Lecture 27. Final Review Session
UCI BioSci M121: Immunology with Hematology (Fall 2013) Lec 27. Immunology with Hematology -- Final Review -- View the complete course: http://ocw.uci.edu/courses/biosci_m121_immunology_with_hematology.html Instructor: Craig M. Walsh, Ph.D; David A. Fruman, Ph.D. License: Creative Commons
From playlist Biological Sciences M121: Immunology with Hematology
S4:E1: The Greatest Existential Threat with Prof. Robert Redwine and Dr. Jim Walsh
Episode Summary: What is nuclear weapons education? And why is it so important for everyday citizens, and the planet? Episode Notes: To most people, especially those who are too young to remember the Cold War, the possibility of nuclear Armageddon may seem so remote as not to be worth co
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Meet Cathy Foley: Australia's Chief Scientist, adviser to the government on Science and technology.
Dr Cathy Foley has a long distinguished career in science. Research physicist, especially in superconductivity and semiconductors, chief Scientist for the CSIRO and is now Chief Scientist for Australia. She advises the federal government on science and technology and advocates on behalf of
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Topics in Combinatorics lecture 5.0 --- Sets of vectors with no acute angles, and Hadamard matrices
How many vectors can you find in R^n if the angle between any two of them is at least a right angle? It's easy to see that one can find 2n such vectors, but can one do any better than this? And what if the vectors have to have all coordinates equal to 1 or -1? This video contains answers t
From playlist Topics in Combinatorics (Cambridge Part III course)
Overcoming Self Doubt - Still Untitled: The Adam Savage Project - 5/17/16
This week, Adam shares how he overcame a recent funk he was in after a bad day at the shop. We discuss the universal feeling of self doubt and impostor syndrome, and how we each move past it. Plus, an appreciation for the movies Pleasantville and The Truman Show! To subscribe to Still Unt
From playlist The Adam Savage Project
Was There Really a Female Pope?
#ProjectHerStory playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHtE7NbaKReeL22jTQB6c0WGw8KfzJvMc Borgia & Medici Family Tree: https://youtu.be/E-Vqv6r4XjY CREDITS: Chart/Narration: Matt Baker Editing: @JackRackam Intro animation: @AlMuqaddimahYT Intro music: "Lord of the Land" by
From playlist Royal Family Trees
A-Level Maths Edexcel Core 3 Jan 2011 Q4
Powered by https://www.numerise.com/ Core 3 Jan 2011 Q4 Edexcel www.hegartymaths.com http://www.hegartymaths.com/
From playlist Core 3: Edexcel A-Level Maths Full Course
Mimi Gardner Gates: Relating individual giving to Gates Family giving
In this clip Mimi Gardner Gates '81 Ph.D. talks with Maxim Thorne and Yale students relating her individual giving to the giving of the Gates Family. Ms. Gates is a Fellow of the Yale Corporation, served as the Henry J. Heinz II Director of the Yale University Art Gallery from 1987-1994, a
From playlist Philanthropy In Action
Gravity: Newtonian, post-Newtonian, Relativistic (Lecture 10) by Clifford M Will
DATES Monday 25 Jul, 2016 - Friday 05 Aug, 2016 VENUE Madhava Lecture Hall, ICTS Bangalore APPLY Over the last three years ICTS has been organizing successful summer/winter schools on various topics of gravitational-wave (GW) physics and astronomy. Each school from this series aimed at foc
From playlist Summer School on Gravitational-Wave Astronomy